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  • THE AGE OF WONDER
    THE AGE OF WONDER
    RICHARD HOLMES
    Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes's dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement. The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook's first Endeavour voyage, who stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769 fully expecting to have located Paradise. Ba...
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  • TWISTED
    TWISTED
    EMILY MCINTIRE
    From BookTok sensation Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious fractured fairy tale reimagining of Aladdin. She's his diamond in the rough. He's her worst nightmare. Yasmin Karam, daughter to one of the richest men in the world, has never known strife. So, when her beloved father falls ill, she's determined to make his final days his happiest. His last wish? To see her marr...
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  • MRS MARCH
    MRS MARCH
    VIRGINIA FEITO
    'Nastily good fun' Metro SET TO BECOME A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ELIZABETH MOSS Shirley Jackson meets Ottessa Moshfegh meets My Sister the Serial Killer in a brilliantly unsettling and darkly funny debut novel full of suspense and paranoia George March's latest novel is a smash hit. None could be prouder than Mrs. March, his dutiful wife, who revels in his accolade...
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  • ONE PIECE, VOL. 2
    ONE PIECE, VOL. 2
    EIICHIRO ODA
    Join Monkey D. Luffy and his swashbuckling crew in their search for the ultimate treasure, One Piece!As a kid, Monkey D. Luffy vowed to become King of the Pirates and find the legendary treasure called the "One Piece." The enchanted Gum-Gum Fruit has given Luffy the power to stretch like rubber--and his new crewmate, the infamous pirate hunter Roronoa Zolo, strikes fear into th...
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  • THE RULE OF LAWS
    THE RULE OF LAWS
    FERNANDA PIRIE
    From ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations. ...
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  • MAGIC PILL
    MAGIC PILL
    JOHANN HARI
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  • OUT OF THE ORDINARY
    OUT OF THE ORDINARY
    JON RONSON
    Jon Ronson's subjects have included people who believe that goats can be killed by the power of a really hard stare, and people who believe that the world is ruled by twelve-foot lizard-men. In Out of the Ordinary, a collection of his journalism from the Guardian, he turns his attention to irrational beliefs much closer to home, investigating the ways in which we sometimes mana...
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  • DELIZIA
    DELIZIA
    JOHN DICKIE
    'If only we could all write as brilliantly on Italy and its food as John Dickie does. He may well know Italy and Italians better than they know themselves' Stanley TucciThe new edition of the much-loved classic, with a fresh chapter that brings the surprising and moreish tale of the Italian way of eating right up to the present.Delizia! takes the reader on a revelatory historic...
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    21,25 €

  • ATLAS
    ATLAS
    DORLING KINDERSLEY PUBLISHING STAFF
    Carry the world in your pocket. It might be small, but Atlas covers every region of the world, from the Atacama Desert to the Zagros Mountains. This book features over 400 essential facts, figures and insights, from geography and climate to population and economy, for an intriguing journey through the fascinating world in which we live. ...
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  • UTOPIA
    UTOPIA
    THOMAS MORE
    'To find citizens ruled by good and wholesome laws, that is an exceeding rare, and hard thing.' Thomas More's Utopia presents an account of an idealised fictional society that has fascinated readers since its first publication in Latin in 1516. It is a scathing critique of More's contemporaries and a hopeful portrait of a better world; a ridiculous satire of the rich and powerf...
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  • ROOTBOUND
    ROOTBOUND
    TARAH DEWITT
    A steamy grumpy/sunshine romance with a warm country feel that touches upon family, heartbreak, and whether the potential for disaster is worth the risk that accompanies love, from the popular TikTok author, perfect for fans of Sarah Adams, B.K. Borison and Lucy Score. Readers say ? ? ? ? ?! 'Great spicy scenes, baking and a lot of humour before the HEA' 'A beautiful mix of f...
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  • OUR YOUNG MAN
    OUR YOUNG MAN
    EDMUND WHITE
    ______________ 'One of the best writers of my generation' - John Irving 'A playful yet searching novel of gay life in the New York of Ed Koch and Studio 54' - Kirkus 'Smart, worldly, erudite, well-connected, and funny' - New York Review of Books 'Remarkable ... America's most significant gay writer' - Literary Review ______________ 'Has everyone always been in love with yo...
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    13,75 €

  • EMMY STAR IS SO EVERYTHING
    EMMY STAR IS SO EVERYTHING
    DANIEL TAWSE
    Rocket has just gone through the worst summer ever. Which means it's the perfect time to start over in drama school in London ... Another joyful queer romance from Daniel Tawse, author of ALL ABOUT ROMANCE. It's September, and Rocket Middleton has just gone through the worst summer ever. Cruz Jones, the love of his life, the guy who he'd made so many life-plans with, has uncer...
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  • THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES
    THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES
    J. G. BALLARD
    With eighteen novels over four decades -from 'The Drowned World' in 1962 to his final novel 'Kingdom Come' in 2006- J.G. Ballard is known as one of Britain's most celebrated and original novelists. However, during his long career he was also a prolific writer of short stories; in fact, many people consider that he is at his best in the short-story format. These highly influenti...
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    21,25 €

  • ACCESS ALL AREAS
    ACCESS ALL AREAS
    BARBARA CHARONE
    First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand, the changes in the cultural landscape. Access All Areas is a personal, insightful and humorous memoir packed with stories of being on the cultural frontline, from first writing press releases on a typewriter driven by Tip Ex, then as a pres...
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  • THE ALLOY OF LAW
    THE ALLOY OF LAW
    BRANDON SANDERSON
    "Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds. Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history--or religion.Yet even as science and tec...
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  • THE BFG
    THE BFG
    ROALD DAHL
    "A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero" David Walliams Every night, when the world is sleeping, big gruesome giants guzzle up whoppsy-whiffling human beans. And there's only one giant who can stop them - the BFG. He's the kindest giant there is and, with his friend Sophie in his top pocket, he sets out to rid the world of the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater and all their r...
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    9,99 €

  • FINAL EQUINOX
    FINAL EQUINOX
    ANDREW MAYNE
    Dr. Theo Cray and FBI agent Jessica Blackwood follow a deadly celestial trail in a thrilling novel by the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Mastermind. A signal is detected at the outer edge of the solar system. Computational biologist Dr. Theo Cray and magician-turned-FBI-agent Jessica Blackwood are looking--and listening--a little closer. The man at ...
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  • ATALANTA
    ATALANTA
    JENNIFER SAINT
    The heroic story of the only female Argonaut, told by Jennifer Saint, the bestselling author of ATALANTA (UK, Sunday Times, April 2023) ELEKTRA (UK, Sunday Times, May 2022) and ARIADNE (UK, Sunday Times, April 2021). 'Brilliantly evocative' Women & Home 'A spirited retelling' Times 'Beautiful and absorbing' Fabulous 'A vivid reimagining of Greek mythology' Harper's Bazaa...
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    12,50 €

  • WORDS OF RADIANCE - PART ONE
    WORDS OF RADIANCE - PART ONE
    BRANDON SANDERSON
    The natural heir to Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive series hit No.1 in the US and No.2 in the UK with the hardback release of the massive second volume, WORDS OF RADIANCE. Split into two volumes for paperback this is Part One of that second volume. WORDS OF RADIANCE takes the reader even deeper into the lives of its characters as they fight for power, free...
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    13,75 €

  • THE FEMALE QUIXOTE
    THE FEMALE QUIXOTE
    CHARLOTTE LENNOX
    A young woman is caught up in her ideas about romance and valor in this celebrated eighteenth-century parody of Don Quixote Beautiful and independent, Arabella has been brought up in rural seclusion by her widowed father. Devoted to reading French romances, the sheltered young woman imagines all sorts of misadventures that can befall a heroine such as herself. As she makes fora...
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  • THE PROSE EDDA
    THE PROSE EDDA
    SNORRI STURLUSON
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksComposed in Iceland in the 13th Century, The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature, taking readers on a voyage through an enthralling world of gods, giants, dwarfs and monsters. From the beginning of the universe to the dreaded Twilight of the Gods, this is the most extensive source of Nors...
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    7,50 €

  • THE FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS
    THE FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS
    GENE WOLFE
    Back in print for the first time in more than a decade, Gene Wolfe's "The Fifth Head of Cerberus" is a universally acknowledged masterpiece of science fiction by one of the field's most brilliant writers. Far out from Earth, two sister planets, Saint Anne and Saint Croix, circle each other in an eternal dance. It is said a race of shapeshifters once lived here, only to perish w...
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  • ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
    ERICH MARIA REMARQUE
    The masterpiece of the German experience during World War I, considered by many the greatest war novel of all time—with an Oscar-winning film adaptation now streaming on Netflix. "[Erich Maria Remarque] is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank."—The New York Times Book ReviewI am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous...
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  • 10 MINUTES 38 SECONDS IN THIS STRANGE WORLD
    10 MINUTES 38 SECONDS IN THIS STRANGE WORLD
    ELIF SHAFAK
    "In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But they did not shut down. Not right away...' For Leila, each minute after her death brings a sensuous memory: the taste of spiced goat stew, sacrificed ...
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  • YOU
    YOU
    CAROLINE KEPNES
    Gone Girl meets Fatal Attraction in Caroline Kepnes' You, a chilling account of the twisted psychology behind unrelenting passion. When aspiring writer Guinevere Beck strides into the bookstore where Joe works he is instantly smitten. Beck is everything Joe has ever wanted: tough, razor-smart and sexier than his wildest dreams. He'd kill to have her. Soon Beck can't resist he...
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  • THAT'S NOT MY DRAGON
    THAT'S NOT MY DRAGON
    FIONA WATT
    The imaginative use of textures in this series of board books adds a delightful dimension to sharing books with babies and toddlers. As each page is turned, a different texture is waiting to be discovered. ...
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    8,75 €

  • CHARLES I (PENGUIN MONARCHS)
    CHARLES I (PENGUIN MONARCHS)
    MARK KISHLANSKY
    The tragedy of Charles I dominates one of the most strange and painful periods in British history as the whole island tore itself apart over a deadly, entangled series of religious and political disputes. In Mark Kishlansky's brilliant account it is never in doubt that Charles created his own catastrophe, but he was nonetheless opposed by men with far fewer scruples and less co...
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    9,95 €

  • STRIKE UP THE BAND
    STRIKE UP THE BAND
    HELEN CRISP / JULES STEWART
    A spirited chronicle of New York's economic and cultural boom during the outstanding decade of the Roaring Twenties. This is the story of the zest for life that gripped New York in the postwar years of the 1920s. The decade ushered in an era of almost unprecedented prosperity and economic expansion that made New York the powerhouse of America and fueled a wave of creativity in...
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  • A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
    A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
    STEPHEN P. KERSHAW
    In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of Rome in AD 476, Kershaw draws on a range of evidence, from Juvenal's Satires to recent archaeological finds. He examines extraordinary personalities such as Caligula and Nero and seismic events such as the conquest of Britain and the establish...
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    16,25 €